PR Permanent Residency Portugal - Not urgent but past 5 years - Action for Ação Administrativa de Condenação à Prática do Ato Devido

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I don’t anything about getting exceptions to the time-away rules in reality (which in Portugal can be very different from what their laws and regs suggest). Maybe others can advise?

But on the PR front, it would seem:

@LANomad

2. There are no available AIMA appointments for non-EU PR applicants, now or in the foreseeable future. So even if you met all the requirements for PR today, it would be functionally impossible to apply.

In short, not only is the 5 year pathway to Permanent Residency a lie, under current circumstances ANY residency-based pathway to PR is a lie. The Golden Visa itself is a lie. This fact stayed hidden while applicants had the ability to apply for citizenship after 5 years, thereby bypassing PR altogether, but now the ugly truth is coming to light.

Think the only successful grant of PR I’ve seen on this forum the past 4 years is someone who went in for a regular Temp ARI renewal appointment and got that changed to a PR request on the day (see here and here).